coyness

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Voorbeelden van coyness

  • His coyness about his future political intentions prompted a TV news anchor to ask the politician's wife the question on everyone's lips.

  • A certain coyness shrouds the enterprise.

  • Feigning coyness, she fluttered her lashes.

  • The extreme shyness he encountered when they were dating was not coyness.

  • Such coyness could be explained by a lack of interest in politics in favour of concentrating on music.

  • As will become clear, my question-mark is not mere coyness; it signals a fundamental aspect of my historiographical orientation.

  • There is some coyness on both sides about who does the writing in their respective shared enterprises.

  • Even serious linguists still show occasional embarrassment or coyness in dealing with the subject, and more popular usage in the public media is distinctly self-conscious and often brash.

  • He has shown an unnatural and unaccustomed coyness on the matter, and he has been sufficiently embarrassed today for me not to press him further.

  • That deserves applause for coyness, though perhaps not for anything else.

  • The rights were enumerated but there was a strange coyness about the responsibilities.

  • There has been too much reticence, too much coyness, too much ignorance, too much stupidity, too much neglect of the nation's plainest need.

  • The licensing boards are not noted for their coyness.

  • The reputation of the police force is at stake and cannot be preserved by secrecy and coyness.

  • Why is there such coyness about the money?

  • I believe that this coyness beloved by industry is unnecessary today.

  • There has not been so much coyness in other countries.

  • It is a case not of coyness but of slowness.

  • In no case has there been either coyness or evasiveness in the answering of outstanding questions.

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